MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 082FNW005

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	23-Jan-1996	by	Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)

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		NMI	082F14 Pb3
Name	CALIFORNIA (L.918), CLIPPER (L.3997), PHOENIX (L.2358)	Mining Division	Slocan
		BCGS Map	082F094
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	082F14W
Latitude	049º 59' 00''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	117º 19' 11''	Northing	5536827
		Easting	477079
Commodities	Lead, Silver	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The California occurrence is located at 1600 metres elevation on the northwestern flank of Idaho Peak. New Denver, British Columbia lies 3.5 kilometres to the northwest.

The California (Lot 918) and Clipper (Lot 3997) Crown grants were worked intermittently from 1897 to 1907. There has been no record of further development on this occurrence although it was owned by California Clipper S.L. Mines Limited in 1935. Workings consisted of two crosscut adits from which drifts extend.

The California occurrence is composed of a quartz fissure vein with argentiferous galena. The vein width varies from 5 centimetres to over 30 centimetres width, crosscutting siliceous argillites and quartzites of the Triassic Slocan Group. The vein has a general strike of 075 degrees and dip of 75 degrees to the southeast.

A total of 308 tonnes of ore are recorded produced from the California occurrence. This ore yielded 906,839 grams of silver and 151,784 kilograms of lead.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1897-570; 1898-1074; 1899-688; 1900-827; 1904-202; 1905- 161; 1906-249; 1907-100,214; 1914-288; 1920-125

EMPR BC METAL MM00941

EMPR INDEX 3-191

EMPR P 1989-5

EMPR PF (Starr, C.C. (1945): Report on a Brief Inspection of the Hartney Group and the Marion and California Claims, in 082FNW004)

GSC MAP 272A; 273A; 1091A; 1667

GSC MEM *173, p. 12; *184, pp. 23,78,193; 308, p. 126

GSC SUM RPT 1916